What is bundling, and what does a bundled PAC get that a single campaign does not?

The rate table

The full HyperPhonebank table has eighteen tiers. The ones a committee usually crosses are 1,250 households ($0.67), 5,000 ($0.57), 10,000 ($0.47), 20,000 ($0.37), 30,000 ($0.33), 50,000 ($0.28) and 55,000 to 80,000 ($0.26). Every tier includes professional live callers, three attempts per household, the candidate's own voice on voicemail, a campaign caller ID, voter identification and issue capture, and the live dashboard. There are no per-minute charges, setup fees or list fees.

Voters convert to households at 0.69, which is the share of a typical voter file that lives at a distinct address with a phone. A 15,000-voter universe is about 10,350 households.

What changes for the committee

Four things, and the price is only the first.

• One rate for the slate, set by the bundle's household count. The calculator shows the exact figure for any mix of races.
• One engagement, itemized per candidate. The proposal, the invoice and the in-kind lines are all per candidate from the start, so reporting is clean.
• A roll-up view across every candidate: the support tracker, which shows who is gaining, who is slipping and where the next dollar should go while there is still time to move it.
• A single point of contact who has run the whole slate, instead of a vendor relationship per campaign.

What changes for each candidate

Nothing that they would notice except the price. Each race gets its own script written for that district, its own caller ID showing the campaign, the candidate's own voicemail, and its own dashboard updated as calls happen. The campaign sees only its own program. The committee sees all of them.

Breakpoints and what one more race unlocks

Because the tiers are steps, a bundle that sits just under a breakpoint can drop its rate for every race by adding one more race or deepening one universe. The calculator shows the next breakpoint and how many households away it is. A committee choosing between funding four races or five often finds the fifth race costs less than the first four's saving.

What happens after the bundle is signed

One proposal, itemized per candidate, comes through the e-signature pipeline. Each campaign supplies its universe or the committee supplies it from its own file; The Political Group builds the household list per race, writes the script with the campaign, records the candidate's voicemail, and sets the caller ID. Calling starts within days. Every campaign gets its dashboard link the day its program starts; the committee gets the roll-up link the same day. Invoices come per candidate per period, and each carries the household count and the amount that becomes the in-kind or independent expenditure line.

What bundling is not

It is not a shared call. No caller ever speaks for two candidates in one conversation. It is not a shared list; each race's universe is its own file. And it is not coordination between candidates; the committee's arrangement with each campaign stands on its own, and whether a program is an in-kind contribution or an independent expenditure is decided race by race.

Three bundles, priced

The table below is the calculator run three ways, so the shape of the saving is visible without opening it. Every figure is the published rate applied to the stated households; nothing is rounded to make the point.

• Two state legislative races at 3,000 households each. Alone, each is priced at the 5,000-household tier, $0.57, for $1,712 apiece and $3,423 together. Bundled, the 6,000 households are priced at the 7,500 tier, $0.52, for $3,125. The bundle saves $298, about 9 percent.
• Five House races at 10,000 households each. Alone, each is at the 10,000 tier, $0.47, for $4,711 apiece and $23,555 together. Bundled, the 50,000 households are priced at $0.28, for $14,230. The bundle saves $9,325, about 40 percent, and each candidate's in-kind line reads $2,846 instead of $4,711.
• A state party ticket of twenty races averaging 4,000 households. Alone, each is at the 5,000 tier, $0.57, for $2,282 apiece and $45,640 together. Bundled, the 80,000 households are priced at $0.26, for $20,784. The ticket saves $24,856, about 54 percent.

How the price is set, and why it is public

The tiers reflect the real economics of a live calling floor: a bigger list keeps a team on one script longer, fills a full shift, and spreads the fixed cost of building the universe, recording the candidate's voicemail and standing up the dashboard over more households. A committee buying a slate creates exactly that economy, so it gets exactly that price. The table is published on this site rather than quoted privately because a committee should be able to price a slate before it talks to anyone, take the number to its board, and hold the vendor to it.